Marin

Traffic along Tiburon's main road is getting worse, but its bus line is one of the least-used routes in the Marin Transit system. TAM, MT, and the town think improving school-time bus service may do the same trick it did in Fairfax, although they're exploring other options as well. (IJ)

The historic building that housed Amazing Grace Music, the old instrument shop in the Redhill Avenue median, is gone. The San Anselmo landmark business has moved up the street thanks to George Lucas, who funded the project and lives a block away. (IJ)

Fairfax has its gateway supermarket back, now that the Good Earth has opened on the east edge of town. The corner has undergone a major transformation over the past few years, and the store looks set to become even more of an anchor for the town. Not to say that everyone's happy - a local merchant dialed 911 to complain about a lack of parking. (Patch)

MALT's housing-oriented cousin, CLAM, has a new director with an eye towards smart growth and the particular human/nature balance that marks West Marin's villages. (IJ)

The Marin Board of Supervisorswere busy this weekdissolving the county redevelopment agency, reallocating funds for road repair, rescinding the priority development zone for homes around San Quentin, and bolstering their rainy day fund. (Patch, IJ)

Bay Area

The Metropolitan Transportation Commissionwants high school interns this summer, and is actually willing to pay them. I'd be all over this were I 18 again. (Patch)

Parking in San Francisco could get even more expensive if SFMTA extends parking hours to Saturday evenings and Sundays. That GGT ride just keeps looking more and more attractive. (SFist)

SMART's rolling stock is on track for a 2013 delivery, and it turns out they're not the only customer. Toronto will purchase the same vehicles from manufacturer Nippon-Sharryo, and SMART, as a partial designer of the heavy DMUs, is getting a cut of the profits. (Press Democrat)

The Greater Marin

Raleigh, NC, is pushing the envelope when it comes to getting people to walk. But it's not the city doing the push - it's people who care enough about Raleigh to do what needs to be done, and sometimes that's just signage. (BBC)

Google has been instrumental in bringing transit data into the digital age with its GTFS protocol, allowing people to plan trips using transit instead of just cars. Golden Gate Transit and Marin Transit are not currently participants, but are actively working on getting online. (Xconomy)

Nashville has gone for the gold and released a new downtown zoning code that essentially does away with much of the zoning. No more parking minimums, no more prescribed uses, no more setback requirements. (Old Urbanist)

Norfolk, VA's The Tide light rail is going like gangbusters, beating ridership expectations in only six months. It faced much the same criticism as SMART, although the two systems will be rather different, and only time will tell how our rail system pans out. (Virginian-Pilot)

Building good bike infrastructure means more than painting sharrows, as Marin loves to do, and sometimes it means giving bicyclists their own traffic signal. (SanFranciscoize)